Embryonic Stem-cell Research Taking Hits
Thank the Maker he did it again. It’s my hope the nation will wake up and realize the fact that embryonic stem-cell research is going nowhere while adult stem cells are saving people’s lives today without any ethical complications.
Our great state of Texas has recognized this truth thanks to the great lobbying efforts of the Texas Alliance for Life. From a recent email update dated 6/20/07:
For the first time in the history of Texas, the General Appropriations Bill, HB 1, has line-item funding promoting lifesaving adult stem cell treatments and research. (This was a major goal of Texas Alliance for Life.) The legislature has appropriated $5 million for adult stem cell treatments and research. $4 million is to save lives with stem cells found in umbilical cord blood, a rich source. The money will be used for collecting the cord blood at hospitals across Texas and storing those adult stem cells in a public bank such as the Texas Cord Blood Bank in San Antonio. There will be no cost to the birth mothers. Those stem cells will be available for treating patients with diseases such as cancer and sickle cell anemia in Texas and beyond. Another $1 million will go towards research to find more treatments using adult stem cells at a Texas research institution, such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
However, there’s still a lot of work to be done when we’re continuing to hear messages like this:
“This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a candidates’ forum Wednesday.
Boy does my stomach churn whenever this woman opens her mouth and spews forth such nonsense as this – and should she happen to become the next president (heaven forbid) I’m looking at an ulcer.
- Should science always trump ideologies?
- There is nothing “political” about this so-called “issue”. Innocent human lives are being destroyed. The ends do not justify the means.
- It throws me for a loop where the president is quickly accused of not looking out for the needs of the families, as if embryonic stem-cell research is the only hope for finding new cures.
- Finally, I’d be interested to hear from someone such as this who promotes relative and subjective truths – what is “reality”?